Quote Originally Posted by Teslo View Post
For some reason you seem to think that Job = The 5 abilities that you quest for over 20 levels.
To be honest and lore aside, that's pretty much what all jobs are now, granted those 5 new skills complement the non job skills in varying degrees from really well to just kinda there. So yeah, they enhance previous abilities in most cases, like Dragon Kick does for example.

On the lore side, I like how they handled the Rogue to Ninja transition, with the Rogues guild keeping in contact with the Ninjas, it's a nice touch that all the other quests didn't really have aside from the SCH keeping in contact with the MRD guild I guess, which isn't even its class' guild. Considering they already threw out all the previous class storylines from 1.0, I wouldn't really mind if they wrote entirely new stories for 3.0 if they did end up abolishing classes and turning the guilds into job guilds, with the job NPCs joining their ranks and making a sort of followup story on them. Especially if it means getting rid of classes, which really and sadly don't serve much of a purpose after level 30.

A lot of those jobs were technically just recently reintroduced into the world, though some are special cases like PLD were they really never went away. In both cases I think it'd be a good chance to introduce more story progression, which granted we'll still have once Heavensward hits with the new level cap, but it'll be just for 10 levels. If they did remove classes I'd still like a way for people to go through the existing class quests because some are just as good as they were in 1.0, though some are just also kinda there and kinda disappointing, like the Marauder quests.

In the end, all this should really have been done since ARR's launch, especially because they both basically remade most abilities and they also wrote new stories. It was the perfect chance to finally turn classes into jobs but it was a missed opportunity I guess, though probably was also because of how the data was carried over or some other reason.